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Embrace the Suck
- Narrateur(s): Dave Michaels
- Durée: 2 h et 27 min
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Description
Milspeak: Slang for military jargon, troop idioms, and Pentagonese.
Members of America’s armed forces have their own distinctive language: milspeak. Especially since WWII, soldiers, sailors, airmen, and marines have invented and adapted their own slang vocabularies, creating a colorful insider’s lingo of bureaucratic buzzwords, acronyms, mock jargon, dark humor, and outright profanity. Milspeak gives a unique and touching insight into military life from basic training to the trenches; from the flight deck to the cockpit.
This comprehensive field manual includes more than 500 colorful entries including:
- Voluntold: Derisive slang for “I was ordered to volunteer”.
- Back to the taxpayers: Navy slang for where a wrecked aircraft gets sent.
- Dome of obedience: Slang for a military helmet. Also called a brain bucket or skid lid.
- Echelons above reality: Higher headquarters where no one has an idea about what is really happening.
- Embrace the suck: The situation is bad, deal with it.
Embrace the Suck is the perfect gift for the soldier, sailor, marine, or airman in your life - or for the Beltway Clerk* who yearns to speak like one.
*Derisive term for a Washington political operative or civilian political hatchet man. May refer to so-called “Washington defense experts” who’ve never served in the armed forces.